Trying to build pdfbox-1.1.0 on Fedora 12 I am getting a build error trying to unjar pdfbox-1.1.0/pdfbox/download/additional_cmaps.jar
m...@arcoiris pdfbox-1.1.0]$ mvn -e clean install /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_20 + Error stacktraces are turned on. [INFO] Scanning for projects... ... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] An Ant BuildException has occured: The following error occurred while executing this line: /home/mth/pdfbox/pdfbox-1.1.0/pdfbox/build.xml:199: Error while expanding /home/mth/pdfbox/pdfbox-1.1.0/pdfbox/download/additional_cmaps.jar java.io.IOException: Negative seek offset ... Caused by: java.io.IOException: Negative seek offset at java.io.RandomAccessFile.seek(Native Method) at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.positionAtCentralDirectory(ZipFile.java:403) at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.populateFromCentralDirectory(ZipFile.java:271) at org.apache.tools.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:152) at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Expand.expandFile(Expand.java:137) ... 42 more [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 20 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Thu Apr 29 19:26:06 EDT 2010 [INFO] Final Memory: 35M/85M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [...@arcoiris pdfbox-1.1.0]$ In the mail archive I found that someone else reported the same issue and tracked it down to a corrupted .jar file http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/pdfbox-users/200912.mbox/%3c4b1949f3.5090...@gmail.com%3e I deleted additional_cmaps.jar away and tried again ... same IOException I blew away my pdfbox-1.1.0 directory and tried again ... same IOException Please advise. Michael